ˌgood-ˈneighbourhood
[f. the phrase good neighbour + -hood.]
The disposition and behaviour characteristic of a good neighbour; friendly feeling and intercourse. So also ˌgood-ˈneighbourliness, ˌgoodˈneighbourship.
| 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 294 In no part of the world is good neighbourship found in greater perfection than in the western territory, or in America generally. 1829 Scott Rob Roy Introd. 25 MacGregor took an opportunity to conjure Stewart, by all the ties of old acquaintance and good-neighbourhood, to give him some chance of an escape from an assured doom. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 10/1 A right good custom..if good-neighbourliness is to count for anything in the village. |